On Friday, May 18th, the Jewish Parent Affinity Group, along with the PAT and the BFS Sesquicentennial Committee, hosts a cultural celebration featuring the 1982 Academy Award winning documentary short film, CLOSE HARMONY. The program begins at 6pm in the BFS meetinghouse, 375 Pearl Street This 30-minute film features BFS lower schoolers and a chorus of […]
The BFS annual Dance Concert takes place Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, at 4pm and 7pm on both days. Be sure to reserve your tickets now, as the shows have sold out in the past. A highlight of the school year and a performing arts tradition that confidently goes back more than 30 […]
by Tina Piccolo “Diversity Makes America Great” 6th Grade Studio Art Combines the Power of Protest Art with the Skill of Painting from Observation When they returned to school in September, the students in my sixth grade Studio Art classes were inspired to take action against the divisive rhetoric and violence in the recent Charlottesville, Virginia, protests. […]
by Joy Roberts and Natania Kremer (with contributions from Rachel Mazor) On Thursday, June 1st the BFS 8th graders gathered for a collection in the Pearl Street Meetinghouse to share and reflect upon their service learning experiences throughout this school year. Their thoughtful and engaging work brings an awareness of HIV and AIDS, and the […]
Reception for 7th/8th Grade Artists on Friday morning, May 19 from 7:30am to 8:25am. Reception for Preschool-Grade 12 Artists on Wednesday afternoon, May 24, from 4pm to 6:30pm. Congratulations and thank you to second grader Liya M, whose wall lamp project in woodworking class (above) was chosen for the BFS All-School Art Show postcard and […]
RESERVE TICKETS This spring’s Middle School play, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, opens on Friday, May 5, with shows at 4pm and 7pm and continues on Saturday, May 6 at 7pm. The play is based on Salman Rushdie’s children’s book, which inspired by Islamic culture, Indian culture, Lewis Carroll, Baum, Brecht and the Beatles […]
The Middle School thespians of Brooklyn Friends School and Director Lorna Jordan will present the play, Haroun and the Sea of Stories in the BFS Meetinghouse on May 5 and 6, 2017. Tickets are free but need to be reserved here. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is “a dramatization of a Salman Rushdie fable with […]
In this year’s Dance Concert, we examine the relationship between Ayiti/Haiti and la República Dominicana/Dominican Republic through dance forms from the two nations. They share the Caribbean island of “Hispaniola,” but the countries are divided through intertwined histories of colonialism, slavery, racism, capitalism, and their continued after-life. While Haiti was the first free Black republic, […]
On a chilly January morning the students of the Preschool gathered to learn the story of Jack Frost and were inspired by the movements he makes leaving marks of frost on window panes. In a unique collaboration with artist Carol Bove and dance teacher Jules Skloot, the students made their own one-of-a-kind frosty marks on a […]
Hello Brooklyn Friends School Family and Friends, The Visual Arts Department wanted to give you a quick look at some student work. US Ceramics Click the link below to watch a video about the Upper School Ceramics class, taught by our wonderful Ceramics teacher Ellen Kahan. https://vimeo.com/67238169 8th Grade Sculpture The Fall 8th […]
Upper School thespians will present Shakespeare’s comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, next Friday and Saturday at 7pm in the Pearl Street Meetinghouse. Tickets are free but need to be reserved here.
Visiting musicians from South Africa and Botswana were in residency at Brooklyn Friends School for two days in early January. They had participated on a panel with BFS Jazz Band teacher Jessica Jones in New Orleans. The panel was on recruiting and retaining girls in jazz programs and was presented at the Jazz Education […]
